This picture shows the north side of the port of Hvar. In the foreground you can see some boats in the small Mandrac port. Just above the boats you see the loggia and the clock tower. Finally, the background is topped by the Spanish fortress.

In 384 BC, the town of Stari Grad was formally founded by ancient Greeks from the island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. They gave the name Faros (ΦAPOΣ) to their new settlement, an independent state permitted to mint its own money.